Re: [PATCH] Fixes hang in zstd compression test by changing the source of random data.

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Aug 22 2019 - 17:24:56 EST


Em Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 06:24:07PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 01:55:15PM +0000, James Clark escreveu:
> > Running 'perf test' with zstd compression linked will hang at the test
> > 'Zstd perf.data compression/decompression' because /dev/random blocks
> > reads until there is enough entropy. This means that the test will
> > appear to never complete unless the mouse is continually moved while
> > running it.
>
> message came mangled, had to do it by hand and then hook up your header
> so as to get the correct date, attribution, etc, please check
> Documentation/process/email-clients.rst,

Having said that, thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo